Couples may be spending more time together, but that's not leading to a baby boom
in Brazil found “significant declines in live births” across educational and demographic lines, starting from nine months after the link between fetal microcephaly and the virus was made public.
ypically, U.S. fertility does eventually bounce back after economy-related downturns, but that still hasn’t happened, even a decade after the onset of the Great Recession,” she says, withow, with the unprecedented economic declines brought on by COVID, it’s hard to imagine fertility ticking up any time soon.”
“I’m in the camp of people who think we shouldn’t care that much” about a decline in births, he says. But there is a caveat: “I The lack of infrastructural support for families has arguably led to the birthrate steadily declining as much as it has in the U.S. — and it’s been exacerbated by the pandemic. “In some ways this pandemic has really stripped everything bare,” says Guzzo. “[We] know on average people still say they want to have two kids. If people aren’t able to do that, that suggests to me our society is failing them, that we don’t have the structures in place that they can have the family they want to have.
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